(nayberry, here's the recipe, and please forgive me because I'm typing this from memory and I don't have it in front of me: melt some chocolate in a double boiler with some paraffin; knead a tube of premade almond paste with a little powdered sugar, form into balls and dip each into the melted chocolate; place on cookie sheet and let harden. My grandmother makes these at Christmastime and they are very good.)

Sledding was the major winter sport when I was a child. When there was snow, several local hills were always crowded. The one in the cemetery was considered the best because it was steep, offered an obstacle course and went nowhere near traffic.

I had a Flexible Flier that was steered with a rope connected to the front. My father had a sled that scared the beejezus out of all us kids. It was a home-made thing from the 1920s. It had a short ski, a rather high post and a bicycle seat on top. The rider was sitting as high as he would on a bicycle but the thing could be steered only by the rider shifting his weight.